Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmous
Literary usage of Osmous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inorganic Chemistry by Edward Frankland, Francis Robert Japp (1885)
"O=Os=O. II O osmous' ... OsO, is obtained n« a grayish-black powder, insoluble
in acids, by heating a mixture of osmous sulphite, ..."
2. A Short Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Hermann Kolbe (1884)
"The compounds of osmium with oxygen and chlorine mostly correspond to those of
platinum, thus : osmous oxide: OsO, and osmic oxide: ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Potassium nitrite added to a solution of osmic acid reduces it to osmous acid
which unites with an alkali forming a beautiful red salt. ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Harold Govett Colman, Arthur Harden (1902)
"Its aqueous solution has an acid reaction, and from it osmous cyanide, Os^N)^
separates out as a dark-violet precipitate. ..."
5. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1871)
"... especially if alkali be in excess, osmous acid (Os Oy) is formed. The reduction
is aided by addition of alcohol. Hydro sulphuric acid produces brown ..."
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